The Future City Program Handbook details most information that you will need to participate in this year’s competition. Another great resource is located here http://futurecity.org/all-resources where you can find webinars, activities, previous winners’ samples, etc.-THIS IS A MUST SEE!!!!

On behalf of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Office of Public Engagement, students from three MidAtlantic Middle Schools were invited to the State of Science Technology, Engineering and Math Address, or “SoSTEM.” This event will featured Dr. John P. Holdren, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Todd Park, US Chief Technology Officer; Lori Garver and Deputy Administrator of NASA. Students asked questions of the Administration This past February 2013 at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Complex.

Woodlawn Middle School was the only public school from Baltimore County to participate in the Future City Competition held at the Baltimore Museum of Industry.

The Future City Competition is a national, project-based learning experience in which students in Grades 6-8 imagine, design, and build cities of the future. Students work as a team with an educator and engineer mentor to plan cities using SimCity™ 4 Deluxe software; research and write solutions to an engineering problem; and build tabletop scale models with recycled materials and present their ideas to judges at the regional…